Williamsburg Battle Report for Brother against Brother

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New Williamsburg battle AAR, playing both sides, using historical guides to play both sides



Text read and tried to follow from,

http://www.civilwarindex.com/battles/VA ... sburg.html

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Settings used



Map shows starting positions of both sides at start of the battle, and also the VL shown as stars, red is the Confederate army with blue being the Federal army.

The arrows show the routes they use and the direction of the reinforcements...

While i have picked to play a battle with rain in it, and it's effect, i have altered my settings to not show it an have the rain displayed but the effect will still hamper both sides.

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Into for the Battle of Williamsburg

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Turn one at 6am, the Federal army to go first and make it's move, with Hooker’s division making it's move on Fort Magruder.

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6am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army moves out of Williamsburg and takes up defences in the redoubts and rifle pits and the fort to protect the town while it later will withdraw to.

I send off my J.E.B. Stuart cavalry units to scout out to the right flank away from the fort and report back on what they find, while elsewhere i move all my units to support the fort and hold the bridges and redoubts to slow the Federal advance.

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6.20am and the Federal army continues it's slow moves along the Yorktown road and also up to the fort, while it keeps raining i keep out the range of the forts guns

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6.20am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army makes better progress as it roads and bases are closer, so are quicker to get in to position and ready to defender before the Federal army closes on the fort.

Jefferson Davis legion almost reaches redoubt 14 on it's way to scout c creek dam.

As the first shots are fired and the first casualties are taken, the battle for Williamsburg goes in to full swing.

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6.40am and the Federal army approaches the fort and is now under fire from the guns held within, it changes it brigade orders from march to advance and makes for safer ground to gain some cover until more units are brought up to help it with it's assault on the fort.

Taylor's 2nd Brigade makes slow progress on the Yorktown road because of the rain and mud.

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6.40am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army, with most Brigades now almost in place i change brigade orders to hold and move the rest in to place next turn

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7am and the Federal army near the fort goes into the ravine while it waits for it's reinforcements and changers into line formation with skirmishes out and ready itself for the assault on the fort while it's in cover, with my gun batteries opening up on the fort i get the range and keep them out of harms way but will move them up to support the assault when it goes in.

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7am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army now all in place and in line change all orders to brigade hold, i send out scouts and check to see where the federal army is at key locations and find most blank atm.

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7.20am and the Federal army in front of the fort occupies the rifle pits in an attempt to gain some protection from the forts guns while moving slightly closer and prepares for the assault while waiting for it's reinforcements to arrive and the rest of the brigade to get in to position.

While Taylor's 2nd brigade reaches summer camp on the way to reinforce the units wait to assault the fort.

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7.20am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army reforms it's position and moves newly arrived units in to line around the fort, while A P Hills Brigade move to hold the right flank

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7.40am and the Federal army in front of the fort starts in moves into all the rifle pits and changes to attack orders by brigade and will wait one more turn for it's reinforcements to arrive before starting the assault.

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7.40am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army still reforms and moves a few units in to better position while the US forms up in front of the fort, my cav scout still report nothing seen, so i see out more scouts.

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8am and the Federal army still bogged down on the road from Yorktown makes slow progress towards to units around the fort, waiting for the attack, with the rain still coming down and having marched for a few hours now they will be in no fit state to fight a battle at the end of this march if this keeps up, as light damage is only being taken by the units around the fort, i can hold out here a while longer while my brigade arrives to reinforce the attack.

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8am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army moves it last few units in to place and all the preparation work is finally done as the federal forces line up in front of them.

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8.20am and the Federal army moves out of the rifle pits and starts it's advance towards the fort where it will change orders to assault while Taylor's brigade crosses the river and joins in the battle for the fort, all but Taylor's brigade reached where i wanted my units to go, so will spend another turn advancing them to there start position which will be late for the main assault so not as planned



The layout of the attackers are from the left flank first, Grover's 1st brigade, Wainwright 2nd artillery Division in the middle, with Patterson's 3rd brigade on the right flank.

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8.20am end of CSA turn report, the Confederate army just gets it last units in place and in the right formation before the assault goes in on us as the fort, my scouts still report nothing spotted at either of our flanks as yet, so this seems the main attack and focus of the Federal army for now.

Jefferson Davis legion reaches redoubt 13 and holds, while the rest of the brigade scouts out the right flank, then hold in all the redoubts blocking the way for any attack from this direction.



With Wilcox's brigade on the left flank, and Jeb Stuart on the right flank, and left to right is Colston's brigade, then Pryor's brigade, with Anderson, Jenkins and Longstreet in the middle with A P Hill on the right.

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8.40am and the Federal army assaults the fort in force with gun batteries supporting the attack